Discuss the rise and fall of the Whig Party and show how its downfall led to the creation of the Republican Party
Mexican-American War,
1846-48
Slavery and the territories
The end of the Whigs
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska 1854
The Republican Party (1854)
by 1858 in the North it had enlisted former Whigs and former Free Soil Democrats to form majorities in nearly every Northern state.
By Robert Kennedy
